Adult Education Program Manager / Studio Engineer

Job Type: Full-Time, Salary, Exempt

Compensation Range: $75,000 to $85,000 annually

Benefits: 100% employer paid group medical, vision, and dental insurance.

Work Location: This position is based at WAM’s Education Lab, Offices and Studios in San Francisco. May include weekend and evening recording sessions and events.

Position Summary: Reporting to the Executive Director (ED), the Adult Education Program Manager will provide educational and administrative oversight of WAM’s adult education programs. This includes WAM Academy and Core Adult Classes and support for WAM’s professional conferences: WAMCon. In addition, this position includes time working in WAM’s recording studios as a staff engineer so that they continue to stay current and evolve as an experienced audio engineer. This position works in close collaboration with our Internship Program Manager/Engineer and Studio Manager/Engineer.

Responsibilities include:

Program Design and Management (45%)

• Implement and manage all adult education programming and WAMCon, including securing and recruiting appropriate contract and staff instructors, speakers, panelists and venues, and generating associated MOUs or contracts and monitoring invoices.
• Oversee and manage the technical setup and staffing of all adult education offerings.
• Develop and monitor an annual education plan - approved Oct/Nov of each year (latest) for the following year. This includes a proposed schedule of workshops and budget and revenue projections that make sure course expenses are covered.
• Provide timely reporting on enrollments and program revenue.
• Conduct evaluations of all adult education classes and programs, including soliciting and analyzing survey responses from students and working with staff/instructors to analyze and adapt curriculum to enhance outcomes
• Ensure compliance with important outcomes/evaluation for program grants, including necessary attendance monitoring, record-keeping, and form collection within related reporting systems online.
• Support Salesforce data entry and reporting.
• Engage with program participants, beneficiaries, and community members to gather input, feedback, and insights for program enhancement
• Collaborate with ED and other staff on curriculum updates, design for current programming and as well as WAMCon. Collaborate with LA Education Program Manager to manage conference programming and logistics, contracts, scheduling, communications with attendees
• Ensure timely response to all inquiries regarding adult education programming.

Instruction (25-30%)

• Provide Instruction for WAM Academy, Pro Tools Certification, Dolby Atmos and other master classes in WAM’s adult education program

Outreach and Partnerships (5%)

• Build and maintain relationships with local and national educational partners, organizations, and stakeholders to help promote WAM’s programs
• Oversee WAM’s Avid Learning Partnership implementation (licensing, e-books, exam platform, certification requirements)
• Work with Marketing team to describe, post, promote, and sell courses and workshops to meet annual income goals

Studio Engineering and Operations (20-25%)

• Audio engineering in WAM’s recording studios, including tracking, editing, mixing for music projects, audio books, podcasts, voice overs, sound for picture, etc.
• Assist in SF studio maintenance, include DAW software upgrades, installations and recommend repairs, equipment as needed.

The ideal candidate has 3-5 years of relevant educational and audio experience, including teaching experience either with adults, or in higher education, and training in audio technology. The successful applicant will be someone who is passionate about WAM’s mission of advancing women, girls and gender-diverse individuals in the fields of music, media and technology through our award-winning training programs.

About WAM Adult Education Programs:

WAM Academy provides rigorous, hands-on certification training in professional audio and the recording arts, led by award-winning women instructors in WAM’s world class recording studios. WAM Core classes serve 500+ San Francisco Bay Area women and gender-diverse adults per year and include Introduction to Audio Production and Recording, Professional Studio Recording, Live Sound, Pro Tools, Electronic Music Production, Podcasting, Intro to Max, Intro to Acoustics, Intro to Mastering, Synth Building, Classical Recording, and more.

WAMCon are WAM’s interactive recording conferences for women and gender-diverse individuals featuring top leaders in the industry, including GRAMMY award-winning music producers, recording engineers, songwriters, beatmakers, and record executives involved in making the music we all love. Workshops and discussions cover topics like recording techniques, mixing, mastering, vocal production, songwriting (including demo feedback), beatmaking, the music business, music licensing, and more. Sound for Picture conferences feature Oscar and Emmy-winning post-production sound professionals for animation, film, TV, and games and cover topics like sound design, production sound, dialog and music editing, and re-recording mixing.

Qualifications:

• 3-5 years of experience and commercial credits as a audio engineer in commercial recording studios or post production facilities
• 2-3 years of instructional experience in a classroom setting, with youth, adults, or in higher education. Significant experience creating course syllabi, lesson plans, etc.
• Pro Tools certified (preferred) with full command of the DAW
• Bachelor’s degree in music technology, music production, audio engineering or equivalent experience required
• Experience creating and implementing program evaluation methods, learning outcomes, etc.
• Self-starter
• Strong organizational skills
• Exceptional attention to detail
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Some non-profit experience strongly preferred

Physical Requirements

• Ability to stand, work, and travel from one location to another.
• Remaining in a stationary position, often sitting or standing for prolonged periods
• Prolonged periods working on a computer
• Communicating with others to exchange information
• Repeating motions that may include the wrists, hands and/or fingers
• Must be able to lift 15 pounds at a time.

The above job description is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position. Incumbents will follow any other instructions, and perform any other related duties, as assigned by their supervisor.

WAM is an equal opportunity employer and committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Applicants from the San Francisco Bay Area and who identify as Black, Indigenous, and/or people of color and trans/gender-expansive are strongly encouraged to apply.